Usually, testing smart card software is carried-out by specialized engineers in a proprietary language. Testing represents generally half of smart card development effort. With the increasing use of semi-formal and formal modeling languages, such as UML, and the emergence of automatic test generators in the industry, we have studied a way to adapt these techniques for smart card. In this articl...

The most common devices used to control access to private areas where sensitive work is being carried out or where data is held, are keys, badges and magnetic cards. These all have the same basic disadvantages: they can easily be duplicated and when stolen or passed on, they can allow entry by an unauthorized person. This paper proposed a low cost embedded controller based smart card which cons...

SCTA supported portable measures for identification and authentication of health care providers via smart cards and public key cryptography, encrypted health care communications, role-based access to distributed health care information services, and remote access to patient vital signs. We developed smart-card applications3 to authenticate health care providers and to provide a portable emergen...

Smart card is a secure device for remote authentication. However, if cardholders lost their card, attackers always can successfully guess passwords and impersonate legal users to login. In 2004, Lee et al. proposed a remote authentication scheme with smart cards. In this paper, we first show that their scheme cannot withstand the guessing attack. If attackers obtain the card, they can successfu...

The current situation of smart cards being used is one where each industry or card issuer has their own mutually non-compatible card specifications and the mutual use among differing smart card systems is difficult. This project will attempt to systematically unify the existing multiple card specifications. By developing a platform system for smart cards based on advanced architecture that can ...

 In many countries, especially in under developed and developing countries proper health care service is a major concern. The health centers are far and even the medical personnel are deficient when compared to the requirement of the people. For this reason, health services for people who are unhealthy and need health monitoring on regular basis is like impossible. This makes the health monito...

Smart cards are being used to provide security for many types of applications, and with an estimated market of 3.3 billion in 2005, their usefulness is based on their intrinsic portability and security. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) initiated the Smart Card Interoperability Program to provide standards (Government Smart Card Interoperability Specification –GSC-IS) an...

E arlier this year, several bills were introduced in Congress to curb what many consumer advocates have described as abusive credit card practices. These bills were intended to keep credit card issuers from penalizing consumers for paying their card balances in full each month. In unveiling one of the measures, Congressman John LaFalce declared, “[Consumers] should not be tricked or trapped int...

The use of an electronic smart card as an alternative means for users to access and pay for transport services is now emerging as a viable option for many operators. With the recent introduction of the Oyster smart card by Transport for London and the plans by a number of passenger transport executives and transport operators to launch smart-card ticketing, the UK is on the verge of an influx o...

In recent technology smart card (Debit Card/Credit Card) is used for many of the activities such as marketing, online transactions, in ATMs etc. But due to theft/cracking of smart card passwords there would be an unusual loss of property. Hence in this paper i introduce some combinational techniques of securing the smart card using a biometric algorithm. This algorithm uses fingerprint recognit...